A reader has questioned whether Sheriff Keith Nygren signed the April 15, 2011, media release about the crash involving the McCullom Lake PD squad car. You can see Nygren's signature on the media release on the sheriff's website at http://www.mchenrysheriff.org/ Look under Press Release on the left side, and then click on the McCullom Lake release dated April 15.
The signature resembles the sheriff's signature, but there are differences. Did someone at the Department sign his name? Or rubber-stamp it? Was he in town on April 15?
If someone signed or stamped his name, that's forgery. Even if they had authority to sign certain documents in his absence, it's forgery. It's forgery because they did not include an indication that they were signing his name, such as their own initials at the end of his name, perhaps encircled. Of course, that would be a clue that he wasn't around to sign it.
Forgery of a sheriff's name on an official document? That ought to be pretty serious. Right?
And another reader has asked me whose new, shiny, white Lincoln SUV (a Navigator?) is parked in the garage at the sheriff's registered voting address. The vehicle has a sheriff's department decal on it. Has it been in that garage for the month he has been gone?
Is that what the sheriff is driving now? A Navigator? What did that cost??? What happened to the Chevy Tahoe with the leather seats? What was wrong with it? Just time to upgrade?
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3 months ago
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Nygren didn't sign any of the April press releases. It would be impossible for him to do so on those dates. He was not in Illinois or in the the Continental United States. Let's not kid ourselves, he is never here and he rarely signs anything. He doesn't run the Sheriff's Department. He CONTROLS the Sheriff's Department.
So, do you suppose that approved CALEA procedure is to use the Sheriff's name in announcements when he is on vacation? (I know the answer to that one....)
Why don't those in charge just issue the media releases in their own names? (Well, maybe I know the answer to that one, too.)
It's only a forgery if Nygren did not authorize the signing of his name. If he did - for whatever purpose - it's not a forgery even if you don't like it. No more so than if I use a signature stamp on a business account and authorize my bookkeeper to affix it to the A/P's and Payroll, that's not a forgery in anyone's book.
Well, I guesss I could FOIA the authorization form... The Undersheriff has begun initialing the media releases by Nygren's "signature".
Why doesn't he just issue them over his own name? After all, isn't he in charge when Nygren is off floating through the Panama Canal?
Or is Nygren "at work" on that cruise ship? How much is cell-phone management costing McHenry County these days?
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